I used to love xine and vlc is ok but slick it is not and when I tried to see if there were any new video players I found none! It's all the same stuff from 10 years ago - and they all look like they're from 10 years ago.

The media player I use on Windows is The Kmplayer. It's classy, slick, simple, easy to use but its advanced settings allows you to change everything (far more than vlc and probably on a par with mplayer). Even Windows Media Player does a better job that lots of the stuff out there.

Maybe I have been out of the loop for too long.

Maybe someone can cut down XBMC into a nice media player?_________________Since the bible and the church are obviously mistaken about where we came from, how can we trust them with where we're going?

vlc comes with its own problems - sometimes it remains running (but not playing) in the background even after I have quit from the interface.

mplayer has a good interface in smplayer, but then which mplayer would you choose? mplayer? mplayer2? mpv? Only the last one can comes with ready to use vaapi acceleration that is needed for playing HD videos decently in intel graphics. But it doesn't work with smplayer

xine is something I hadn't checked in a year or two. But it seems it finally has vaapi acceleration since last May, which is very nice. Not sure what player has a good interface to this.

Most of the players from gnome/kde are either really dumbed down, or they have massive dependencies, or are really ugly._________________emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using e17 | e18, e19, and kde4 sucks :-/

vlc comes with its own problems - sometimes it remains running (but not playing) in the background even after I have quit from the interface.

mplayer has a good interface in smplayer, but then which mplayer would you choose? mplayer? mplayer2? mpv? Only the last one can comes with ready to use vaapi acceleration that is needed for playing HD videos decently in intel graphics. But it doesn't work with smplayer

xine is something I hadn't checked in a year or two. But it seems it finally has vaapi acceleration since last May, which is very nice. Not sure what player has a good interface to this.

Most of the players from gnome/kde are either really dumbed down, or they have massive dependencies, or are really ugly.

There's SMPlayer2 for mplayer2. And VLC is a big buggy POS that was never the same since they dumped the wxwidgets interface and rewrote the whole thing from scratch.

mplayer has a good interface in smplayer, but then which mplayer would you choose? mplayer? mplayer2? mpv? Only the last one can comes with ready to use vaapi acceleration that is needed for playing HD videos decently in intel graphics. But it doesn't work with smplayer

There's SMPlayer2 for mplayer2. And VLC is a big buggy POS that was never the same since they dumped the wxwidgets interface and rewrote the whole thing from scratch.

I used mplayer2 with smplayer very well on nvidia graphics - until I got a new machine with intel graphics. That's when I had to stop using mplayer2/smplayer combo - lack of vaapi._________________emerge --quiet redefined | E17 vids: I, II | Now using e17 | e18, e19, and kde4 sucks :-/

smplayer looks ok but is hardly slick and new looking. Why are the icons so incredibly fugly? Why does no media player basic theme in linux look like it was created after 1995?

I have to spend half an hour downloading special icons from deviant art and extracting themes for it!_________________Since the bible and the church are obviously mistaken about where we came from, how can we trust them with where we're going?

If I use any theme apart from the basic one it goes fullscreen on a different screen. Themes only fullscreen to window 1. How retarded is that?_________________Since the bible and the church are obviously mistaken about where we came from, how can we trust them with where we're going?

If I use any theme apart from the basic one it goes fullscreen on a different screen. Themes only fullscreen to window 1. How retarded is that?

well, really retarded, if you ask me. Using themes on a videoplayer, that is.

even when the basic ones look shit? Using something that could look and act a lot better than it does is even more retarded_________________Since the bible and the church are obviously mistaken about where we came from, how can we trust them with where we're going?